BIOGRAPHY: Samuel EISENBISE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 462-463.

  SAMUEL EISENBISE, Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa., is descended from a German 
family, and is a son of Daniel and Margaret Eisenbise.  He was born December 12, 
1837.  Three children of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Eisenbise are deceased:  William, 
died at the age of thirty-five;  Calvin, died aged seventeen;  and one other.  
Those surviving are:  Mary Ellen (Mrs. Good), of Altoona, Pa., has one child, 
Allen;  and Samuel.  Daniel Eisenbise and his wife are both deceased.
  The education of Samuel Eisenbise was begun in the public schools of 
Lewistown, and his latest school years were passed in the academy of the same 
town, which he began to attend at the age of thirteen.  He did not leave his 
father's house until, at the age of twenty-three, he enlisted for the three 
months' service, among the earliest volunteers for the defense of the Union.  He 
was enrolled at Lewistown in Company I, Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. 
William H. Irwin, Capt. H. A. Zollinger, and was made fourth sergeant.  The 
regiment was attached to General Patterson's command.  Its term having expired, 
members were discharged at Harrisburg, Pa., in the latter part of July, 1861.  
About a month later, Mr. Eisenbise again enlisted, this time for three years, in 
Company A, Forty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col. Joseph Knipe, Capt. H. A. 
Eisenbise, ranking as sergeant.  After faithful and gallant service for three 
years, he was discharged at Harpers Ferry, Va.  After a short time passed at 
home, he once more enlisted, under Captain Eisenbise, in company A, of the 
thirty-sixth, but completed his term of service as second lieutenant of Company 
C, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, Capt. Absalom Selheimer, a regiment 
which saw much hard service, and earned for itself a large share of the grateful 
remembrance of the citizens of a re-united country.  Returning to Lewistown, Mr. 
Eisenbise, after a short experience in the business of butchering, opened a 
restaurant, which he conducted with great success until 1887.  In 1886 he built 
the comfortable cottage, in modern style, on the corner of Wayne and Fourth 
streets, in which the family now reside.  Mr. Eisenbise holds to the political 
principles of the Democratic party.
  Samuel Eisenbise was married in October, 1863, to Elizabeth Sproul.  Their 
children are:  Margaret (Mrs. James Wolfkill), has one child;  William S.;  and 
Mary Ellen (Mrs. Thomas G. Burke), has two children.  Mr. Sproul, father of Mrs. 
Eisenbise, is deceased, but her mother survives him.  Their children were:  
Robert;  William;  Margaret;  and Elizabeth (Mrs. Eisenbise).  Mrs. Sproul is 
remarried to James McGowan, and has by this union three children:  James;  
Lafayette;  and Edith.  The Eisenbise family attend the Methodist Episcopal 
church.